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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Native American Pow Wow July 4th - 6th in Cherokee North Carolina

The Native American Pow Wow in Cherokee North Carolina will entrain visitors with pounding drums, traditional Native American chants, Native American costumes and plenty of fancy footwork.

Visitors to the Cherokee Pow Wow this July 4th, 5th and 6th both young and old will have a great time watching the best native American Indian dancers from tribes near and far competing for cash prizes and bragging rights to be the best dancer or drummer in each category.

Visitors to the Cherokee Indian Pow Wow will also find native American Crafts and products and booths selling various food.

The Pow Wow will be held in the Cherokee fairgrounds and the gates open Friday July 4th at 5 pm, Saturday July 5th at 10 am and Sunday July 6th at 10 am.

The dancers and drummers will make the grand entrances on Friday at 7 pm, Saturday at 1pm and 7 pm and Sunday the final grand entrance will be at 1 pm.

The following are the dancing and drumming categories and the corresponding prizes:

For those who are going to participate in the Pow Wow as contestants for the dancers there is a $10 registration fee and for the drum contestants there is $50 Entry Fee and there must be 5 in group to enter contest.

At this time we would like to thank all of those competing in the Pow Wow as well as: